Difference in Cream Legbars & Light Brown Leghorns

[angelathomas1]

I got a shipment of 9 pullet chicks from Meyer Hatchery today and also got 6 pullets from Lancaster Fancy Fowl today. I put them all together before determining the Cream Legbars from the one Light Brown Leghorn.

Can someone help me determine any differences? Two of the Cream Legbars are for a friend and I don't want to accidentally give her my 1 Iight Brown Lefhorn.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

I just looked, and Lancaster sells Cream Crested Legbars...that will make it easy as they will have crests while the Brown Leghorn won't.

As chicks, that usually means they will have a bit of extra fluff on top of the head that will later turn into the crest.

They also are a more grey brown chipmunk (female) than the Leghorn....and CCL males will have a white head dot...so any with a white head dot will be a male CCL....which represents the barring to come in the rooster.

It may be a bit tough going if the colors are very similar (which could happen) and the fluff hasn't developed enough to see the crest right away.

if worse comes to worse, you can wait a few weeks until the crest starts forming.

LofMc

 

[Michael OShay]

I just looked, and Lancaster sells Cream Crested Legbars...that will make it easy as they will have crests while the Brown Leghorn won't.

As chicks, that usually means they will have a bit of extra fluff on top of the head that will later turn into the crest.

They also are a more grey brown chipmunk (female) than the Leghorn....and CCL males will have a white head dot...so any with a white head dot will be a male CCL....which represents the barring to come in the rooster.

It may be a bit tough going if the colors are very similar (which could happen) and the fluff hasn't developed enough to see the crest right away.

if worse comes to worse, you can wait a few weeks until the crest starts forming.

LofMc

X2 on LofMc's post.

 

[angelathomas1]

I just looked, and Lancaster sells Cream Crested Legbars...that will make it easy as they will have crests while the Brown Leghorn won't.

As chicks, that usually means they will have a bit of extra fluff on top of the head that will later turn into the crest.

They also are a more grey brown chipmunk (female) than the Leghorn....and CCL males will have a white head dot...so any with a white head dot will be a male CCL....which represents the barring to come in the rooster.

It may be a bit tough going if the colors are very similar (which could happen) and the fluff hasn't developed enough to see the crest right away.

if worse comes to worse, you can wait a few weeks until the crest starts forming.

LofMc

I guess I will give her two chicks and trade her if one of them turns out to be my Leghorn because right now there is no extra fluff on their heads.

I will say, one of them has slightly more developed wing feathers for only being 4 days old, maybe that one is the Light Brown Leghorn?

I'm so mad at myself, I should have separated the Leghorn before I added the Legbars.

 

[dheltzel]

I would described my CCL pullet chicks as more "grayish" than my Welsummers (which I believe look a lot like Brown Leghorns). I still band them because they can be tricky to discern.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

I just looked, and Lancaster sells Cream Crested Legbars...that will make it easy as they will have crests while the Brown Leghorn won't.

As chicks, that usually means they will have a bit of extra fluff on top of the head that will later turn into the crest.

They also are a more grey brown chipmunk (female) than the Leghorn....and CCL males will have a white head dot...so any with a white head dot will be a male CCL....which represents the barring to come in the rooster.

It may be a bit tough going if the colors are very similar (which could happen) and the fluff hasn't developed enough to see the crest right away.

if worse comes to worse, you can wait a few weeks until the crest starts forming.

LofMc

I agree and maybe you can separate into groups that look similar to one another since you have six and eight.

 

[Roosterwrangler420]

I guess I will give her two chicks and trade her if one of them turns out to be my Leghorn because right now there is no extra fluff on their heads.

I will say, one of them has slightly more developed wing feathers for only being 4 days old, maybe that one is the Light Brown Leghorn?

I'm so mad at myself, I should have separated the Leghorn before I added the Legbars.

I think brown leghorns are rapid feathering or whatever it means when they grow feathers faster lol so that mat be a good indicator but I'm so new at this myself.